Violent crimes include murders and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults. U.S. rate does not include territories.

Table 4, Crime in the United States-2007, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, 2007, available at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/offenses/violent_crime/index.html

1. Includes offenses reported by the Zoological Police and the Metro Transit Police.
2. Limited data were available for Illinois.
3. The data collection methodology for the offense of forcible rape used by the Illinois and the Minnesota state UCR Programs (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) does not comply with national UCR guidelines. Consequently, their state figures for forcible rape (with the exception of Rockford, Illinois, and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota) have been estimated for inclusion in this table.